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Screenwriting

It is a really exciting time to be writing Science Fiction in Australia. SF is on TV screens – Glitch, The Kettering Incident and Clever Man. Horror and SF films are doing really well. They’re selling overseas – Babadook is one of our most successful recent exports and is solidly genre. – Catherine S. McMullen with David Tiley, Screen Hub. More:

Martin McDonagh wrote ‘Three Billboards‘while travelling between New York and LA via Santa Fe and Montana. “I write by hand on notepads,” he muses, “And at the top of each page I write whichever country or state I’m in. This script was like a road map of America. – Rhiana Davies-Cotter and James Mottram, FilmInk. More:

Producers fall into two categories. The great ones make suggestions to help you realise your work more fully. The annoying ones tell you at length how they themselves might have written the story, if only they could write. – David Hare, The Guardian. More:

Hollywood double-standards are a tougher opponent than KGB thugs or acid-blooded aliens. Theron, Johansson, Gadot … could do with female screenwriters to fully free them from the tendency to make their characters secondary. But in 2017, the fight is moving on. — Nick Hasted, Independent. Read more:

“While missing person statistics are compiled for every other demographic, none exist for Native American women.” ̶ from Wind River, screenplay by Taylor Sheridan. Read more from Mary Kaye Schilling, Newsweek:

The King Arthur legend has multiple elements, among them a love story involving the king, Guinevere, and Sir Lancelot. This version incorporated fantasy, swords, sorcery, and FX, but didn’t bother with romance or significant female characters. – Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire. Read More: